National culture and strategic thinking in organizations: review and inferences from the gcc region

International Journal of Development Research

Volume: 
09
Article ID: 
17128
5 pages
Research Article

National culture and strategic thinking in organizations: review and inferences from the gcc region

Saeed Hameed AL Dulaimi, Marwan Mohamed Abdeldayem and Adel Al Samman

Abstract: 

The purpose of this study is to draw on the existing literature of the strategic thinking. Then conduct a review of the studies that identified the obstacles of strategic thinking in Arab culture. This will enable to conclude with recommendations to draw the map of raising the level of strategic thinking. The urgent need to think globally instead confined internally then draw the lines which leads to this point. This study is the first theoretically based discussion to detail the specific obstacles required to pave the way to think strategically in Arab culture.

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